Guild Wars 2

I have a few general questions and thoughts about charr physiology that I was told to entertain here. Firstly, I would like to merely question what people think the average life length of a charr is. It’s not stated on the wiki or anywhere else to my knowledge, but a friend of mine said they would likely have shorter lives than humans being big cats who are mostly carnivorous.

Another topic I’d like to discuss is the presence or absence of retractable claws in charr.

Apparently, in Ghosts of Ascalon, Almorra Soulkeeper once retracts her claws, and that is taken by some people as proof they would all have them, but others believe charr claws are too large to properly retract.

From the handbook The Making of Guild Wars 2 that came with the Collector’s Edition of the game, Character Artist Katy Hargrove is quoted as saying that, “I initially drew the females without their claws—they would retract when not in battle—to soften them up a little, but it didn’t work out too well.” (Page 51) This would lead me to believe that since Ghosts of Ascalon was written and published while Guild Wars 2 was being developed, the inclusion of retractable claws was a mere oversight, a concept since thrown-out in development.

However, this is not a direct statement one way or the other and I interpret it as I will, and I posted this information on the Guild Wars 2 wiki for review and was told to put it here to achieve a larger audience. Not one to argue with good advice, I figured why the heck not and here you go.

I’m open to any thoughts or anything, really.